When George Abbott Hall was born on 18 April 1737, in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, his father, John Hall, was 27 and his mother, Hannah Abbot, was 24. He married Lois Matthewes on 14 February 1764, in Charleston, South Carolina, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 10 daughters. He died on 1 August 1791, in Charleston, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Saint Michaels Church Cemetery, Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, United States.
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English, Scottish, Irish, German, Norwegian, and Danish: from Middle English hall (Old English heall), Middle High German halle, Old Norse hǫll all meaning ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), hence a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a hall or an occupational name for a servant employed at a hall. In some cases it may be a habitational name from any of the places called with this word, which in some parts of Germany and Austria in the Middle Ages also denoted a salt mine. Hall is one of the commonest and most widely distributed of English surnames, bearing witness to the importance of the hall as a feature of the medieval village. The English surname has been established in Ireland since the 14th century, and, according to MacLysaght, has become numerous in Ulster since the 17th century.
Swedish: ornamental or topographic name from hall ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), or a habitational name from a placename containing the element hall ‘rock’ (from Old Norse hallr).
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 何 and 賀, see He 1 and 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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